Sentence examples for societal compromise from inspiring English sources

Monday's decision let stand, for now, a longstanding but fragile societal compromise, one that forbids quotas but allows using race as one factor among many in the admissions process.

Or, if they do, they don't see a way to forge the necessary societal compromises, because their rival factions take the view either that "I am weak, how can I compromise?" or "I am strong, why should I compromise?" As for blaming Obama — for leaving Iraq too soon or not going more deeply into Libya or Syria — it grows out of the same problem.

In the current critical moment, the Japanese calamity has shown all the world the harsh downside risks of just a few of the societal compromises we've made.

We suggest that creative international policy approaches are needed to ensure the individual migration rights of health professionals do not compromise societal population rights to health, and that there are public and fair agreements between countries within an internationally agreed framework.

The Bush administration's abridgment of privacy protections for medical records (front page, Aug. 10) reflects a further compromise of societal concerns with privacy.

Many societal factors threaten to compromise realisation of the public health gains that immunisation can achieve in the next decade and beyond understanding these factors is imperative.

Creative policy approaches are needed to ensure that individual rights of health professionals do not compromise the societal right to health.

As schools are not immune to community differences, teachers and pupils can be compromised along societal affiliations (Weinstein et al. 2007).

Fred Friendly, who became an advocate for compromise on difficult societal issues after his retirement as president of CBS News, once said that Mr. Landau's committee "had a big chip on its shoulder".

The Christian church has always urged the overcoming of racism, even though it has generally compromised with prevailing societal values.

Mass mobilization produced two effects: a level of societal engagement that made moderation and compromise in peacemaking difficult and conscripted armies that were becoming difficult to handle in the field.